Re: Defence : Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:05 am  

Rooster Booster wrote:

I think a couple of players when watching their vids during the week will see they need to not rush out creating holes for at least three of Bradford's tries. "Up, fast, in a line and hold"

You'd think the penny might have dropped, wouldn't you? But Witt has been busy watching dummy runners and missing the real runner for one and a half seasons and Gower has moved up and Sarginson hasn't followed him for almost as long. Easy to coach against!

Re: Defence : Wed Apr 10, 2013 10:34 am  

Colly2 wrote:

But, Rooster, this is not the first time we've been shut out 20 or 30-nil in a second half. It's the fourth or fifth time in eleven games.

Just going on what Qire Quin said Colly. It's always been hard to fathom what really goes on from so far away and aonly seeing 5 mins of the oppositions tries LOL

Re: Defence : Wed Apr 10, 2013 10:36 am  

Colly2 wrote:

You'd think the penny might have dropped, wouldn't you? But Witt has been busy watching dummy runners and missing the real runner for one and a half seasons and Gower has moved up and Sarginson hasn't followed him for almost as long. Easy to coach against!

But there would be no doubt that it would have been worked on through video and in training week on week. You just can't control it when it's going on in a game. Which is why people like myself get sent on to remind them.

Re: Defence : Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:11 am  

Rooster Booster wrote:

But there would be no doubt that it would have been worked on through video and in training week on week. You just can't control it when it's going on in a game. Which is why people like myself get sent on to remind them.

Well, the same players display precisely the same behaviour week after week.

So change the personnel!

EDIT: Doesn't there a come a point when it is clear that a player can't or won't change the way they play? Are you saying you just continue to work on the issue during the week and via messages in-play ad infinitum, hoping that one day things'll be right?

Re: Defence : Wed Apr 10, 2013 12:35 pm  

Colly2 wrote:

Well, the same players display precisely the same behaviour week after week.

So change the personnel!

EDIT: Doesn't there a come a point when it is clear that a player can't or won't change the way they play? Are you saying you just continue to work on the issue during the week and via messages in-play ad infinitum, hoping that one day things'll be right?

I'm guessing that after listening to people's observations on HOW certain players play that as Tony Rea didn't have much say in the current squad, he'd want to make changes/aquisitions.

Though let's be honest. It's got FA to do with us fans at the end of the day who a club keeps.

Re: Defence : Wed Apr 10, 2013 2:08 pm  

Though let's be honest. It's got FA to do with us fans at the end of the day who a club keeps.[/quote]

You are correct but it us fans that contribute towards to club and we are getting fewer by the week

Re: Defence : Wed Apr 10, 2013 6:29 pm  

Rooster Booster wrote:

Though let's be honest. It's got FA to do with us fans at the end of the day who a club keeps.

It is the fans who are choosing not to turn up to watch.

Re: Defence : Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:05 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

It is the fans who are choosing not to turn up to watch.

Maybe Gus should take over the roll of defensive coach because he seems pretty good and preventing any flack getting anywhere near him!

Convinced they don't care any more....Gus has sold the idea of a move being the solution to Hughes, who in turn doesn't really care either way as he's offski at the end of 2014........if they cared about fans turning up they'd have done something about it when Gus came on board with his hand picked team of people he'd worked with before....all he's done since the failed re-brand is cut costs and try to increase residual revenue by flogging a few balti's....now we are starting to reap the rewards of what he and Blanchard before him failed to sow.!!